our progress so far

After a quick turn around in idea we new we had to get to work on our new film very rapidly so we could complete our project in time and to a satisfactory standard.
We have once again come up with a number of issues with our film and the main one is the weather. At the moment we are having extremely windy conditions making filming difficult as the camera shakes even though it is positioned on a tripod. Also how cold our actors are and are finding it difficult to perform without their teeth chattering together. This bad weather may also give us issues with continuity but as our film is flicking between the past a present, the flashback scenes would in be better with varying weather as it changes day to day so this would be more realistic.

This is a scene from the film 'Forrest Gump' and alot of the film centeres around a bench much like our film centers around a tree.

I really like this poster for the TV drama 'six feet under' its really simple but extremely effective. 'Six feet under' is set in a morgue but the series mainly centers around the family running the business rather than it's deceased customers. Therefor the tree could be seen as a 'family tree'. With the title being placed below the tree as if it is berried underground giving the subtial tie between the company and its owners lives.
The colours used in this poster are very dull and light and almost fade into black and white. This gives a faded feel to the picture.


The other image i just found when i searched for family tree pictures, but the way i interprited it was very similar to how i would want our audience to see our poster. Just with the simple adition of the tire swing to the tree shows that this is a tree that is often visited by children it is a place od joy and activity. But as it is solitary and no one appears to be around it has a slight sinister feeling or mor eof a forgotten air.

These photographs were taken in our location when we were deciding on which tree would be suitable for our film. We wanted one that was isolated so it would symbolism the loneliness and isolation of the main character. Also family tree are often just one single tree.

This is an aerial shot of our location a field in Normanby which contains a lone try the center point of our film. We wanted somewhere where we could film with out being disturbed too often, also somewhere in close proximity to all of us in the group. the tree also had to be very solitary not just because it looks more effective but also to partly represent our main characters isolation and loneliness in the film.
The tree we choose was pretty small but its shape was very stereotypical of drawings of family tree maps.

Family Tree; synopsis

Young widow, Mr Sycamore is dwelling on his tragic life, his memories triggered by the tree near his house. The film opens with an establishing shot of the tree, then pans to the man at his desk looking out the window at the tree, sorrow drowning his face. The man then walks to the tree holding some flowers and it flashbacks to when he was a young boy, meeting a young girl at the tree. Flashback to present day and the man is still walking towards the tree, slowly and depressingly. Then we see the children running around the tree in a flashback. The present day man walks up to the tree and rests his head on it, we see a carving of a love heart and initials in it and he touches the wood. He then pulls a photo out of his pocket, it shows his wedding, under the tree where he is standing. Another flashback shows him and his new wife running from their wedding to the tree, the symbol of their love. The flashbacks move on to a picnic under the tree, with his wife and son. A pan around the tree and there is sat just the lonely old man on his own. The flashbacks become more fragmented, the family are in the car in the dark, rain pounding on the windows. Mr Sycamore is on his phone, for buisness and doesn't see the car swerving right into the side of him, the side where his wife and boy are sat. A blackout, screams and sirens are heard until we come back to the present day man, crying, crumpled at the bottom of the tree. In the dull distance a figure appears, a laughing, smiling girl running towards him in her wedding dress; his wife. For a brief second he stands up and walks towards her, tears wiped away, until she vanishes. Destroyed, the man grabs some rope and climbs the tree. The final thing we see is the mans legs, dangling from the tree, the tree that was once a symbol of love and family, is now drowned in death.

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